Please help me design my HT room (1 Viewer)

[Aaron H]

Hi everyone,
We're building a new house and I have to have my wiring decisions by Friday. I'm trying to decide on the layout of the upstairs bonus room which will house a HT.
Here's a pic.
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/reef/room.html
The room is 20'x17' and has pretty high vaulted ceilings. I don't know for sure which way the 20' and which way the 17' dimensions run. If that's very important to know, I can find out tomorrow.
I want to put a rear-projection TV on one end, with the front LCR speakers. Then, of course, I want 2 rear surrounds. And the biggie, an SVS. To help with the WAF, would the closet be on ok please for the SVS? Oh, and we have 2 normal sized couches to go up there. I guess I'm just looking for the best possible sweet-spot from the two couches, and of course, I want to be able to place the rear-surrounds so hopefully both people on the couches can hear them the best.
Oh, and I like to mount the rear speakers on the wall. I don't really wanna have them stand mounted.
I tried labeling the walls so it might help with your description, should you choose to offer some advice.
Thanks in advance!!!!!
Aaron

 

[Neil Joseph]

I'm moving this post over to the Building A Home Theater Area in anticipation of more response to your thread.

 

[Dan Hitchman]

In your diagram, which is the 20' and which is the 17' section?

You more often than not you want to place a screen on one of the short walls.

I don't think you'd like the sound of an SVS in the closet. If the closet is big enough, gut it and put a Middle Atlantic rack system (the Slim 5 series is the most economical) in there for your components with enough ventilation and run all major wiring to it.

Trust me that you'll want to run a wire conduit and pull strings to where you might wind up placing a front projector in the future(even a separate 15 gauge run for plugging in said future projector), and run speaker wire for center back surround speakers for a possible 7.1 setup. Do so now or you'll have a lot of trouble upgrading later.

Dan